DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Crow or Raven Toilet Paper Roll Craft

contributed by Leanne Guenther
 

I was pondering what to make today and chanced to gaze out the window just in time to see a "murder of crows" pecking away at my autumn garden.  Yep, a group of crows is called a "murder" -- neat, eh?  I haven't made a cardboard tube craft for awhile so I thought I'd add this little guy!

This crow or raven is a color, cut and paste craft that uses a cardboard tube as a base to give it a three dimensional effect.  I love the toilet paper roll crafts that have wings!

The crow (or raven) works well for a lot of different themes, including:

• Bible theme (Elijah or Noah),
• Norse mythology
• Aboriginal (Native American) mythology
• autumn theme (with scarecrows),
• Halloween theme
• birds theme
• farm theme

Materials for making the crow craft:

• toilet paper roll,
• printer,
• glue,
• scissors,
• something to color with,
• paper

Instructions for making the crow craft:

• Print out the template of choice.  I like to use the color version when I want the kids to have lots of time to practice their scissor skills but when we have a lazy afternoon available to us I like to use the black and white version (I still love coloring things in with pencil crayons!)
• Color the pieces if you chose the black and white version.
• Cut out the template pieces -- beginning scissors users can work on the large rectangle while someone helps them with the tougher pieces like the feet  or the tail.
• Glue the large rectangular piece around the toilet paper tube or you can paint the toilet paper roll black.
• Glue the tummy onto the front of the toilet paper roll.
• Glue crow's tail onto the back of the toilet paper roll.   I glued it to the inside back and then folded it upward.
• Glue the triangular beak and eyes onto the front of the toilet paper roll.  I let the eyes overlap the beak and each other a little bit.
• Glue the wings onto the back of the toilet paper roll to make it look like the crow is flying.
• Fold the feet and glue the tabs to the inside of the tube.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Craft Template        (color)   or   (B&W)

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